Music Quotes

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.

~ Henry David Thoreau

None of it mattered, because there was music.

~ Erin Entrada Kelly

...seeing ghosts and demons just lends itself to listening to White Zombie and Slayer and Fantomas on repeat. One Direction and Selena Gomez are for the girls who don’t see dead people every fucking day.

~ Karina Halle

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.

~ Paul Mccartney

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

~ Claudia Gray

If it sounds good, it is good.

~ Louis Armstrong

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.

~ Ikkyu

reality has too many heads

~ Bob Dylan

Bowie talks in great, voluble torrents, darting from one topic to the next, parenthesizing and then parenthesizing the parentheses, as if he has too many ideas for one conversation.

~ Sean Egan

You don’t want a cheap Strat. Everybody has it. What you want is a rare model. The one that’s very hard to get. And only a guitar you’ve put a lot of effort into buying would end up being the most important in your collection. Do you get it?

~ Polina Traore

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

~ Ezra Pound

What music do you like?” he asked between calls.“Cheery, chirpy pop.”Wincing, he pulled up a station that delivered exactly that. “You owe me.”“Come on”—she turned in her seat to face him once more—“it’s not that bad.”“I’m sorry? I can’t hear you past the sugar blocking my eardrums.

~ Nalini Singh

Everyone plays guitar alone, but we can play side by side.

~ Jennifer Lane

If words are not music, they have failed your song.

~ Aditya Bhaskara

It was not the sorrowful, lovely piece she had once played for Dorian, and it was not the light, dancing melodies she'd played for sport; it was not the complex and clever pieces she had played for Nehemia and Chaol. This piece was a celebration—a reaffirmation of life, of glory, of the pain and beauty in breathing.Perhaps that was why she'd gone to hear it performed every year, after so much killing and torture and punishment: as a reminder of that she was, of what she struggled to

~ Sarah J. Maas

Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music.

~ Christina Engela

Don't regret anything you do, because in the end it makes you who you are.

~ Jared Leto

It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

~ Miles Davis

Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were red with coals.

~ David Ebershoff

Tonight I heard Louis's horn. My father heard it, too. The wind was right, and I could hear the notes of taps, just as darkness fell. There is nothing in all the world I like better than the trumpet of the swan.

~ E.b. White

Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.

~ Switchfoot

And another thing about German symphonic development: [it's] just like German philosophy, all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with reasoning. Just keep one thing in mind. The creative act carries within itself its own aesthetic laws. When an artist revises, it means he is dissatisfied. When he revises what is already satisfying, he is Germanizing, chewing over what has [already] been said. We Russians are not cud chewers; we are omnivores!

~ Modest Mussorgsky

If you are trully in a place that is way from the noise of civilization,you can actually experience what real slience is about.It is filled with sounds of nature.There is a musicality,a harmony to it...

~ K.j. Kilton

Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.

~ Joey Ramone

Reese sucked in a breath and played faster, hurling the anger through his fingers until it spun all hisfear, all his rage, into the gentle voice of music.

~ Willowy Whisper

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

~ Richard Belzer

Life is like a piano. White keys are happy moments and the black ones are sad moments. Both keys are played together to give us the sweet music called Life.

~ Suzy Kassem

... and it occured to me then and forever afterwards, that films, theatre books and poems were just a fraud. It's only music that doesn't deceive, it doesn't pretend to be anything else except what it is. Music.

~ Lars Saabye Christensen

Tristan was the soundtrack of my summer. The beat I walked to. The melody I breathed in and out. The lyrics I lived by.

~ Jessica Brody

If I am horror writer, I should listen to metal???- Why not to dubstep??? Or Deathstep???

~ Deyth Banger

Suddenly high song awakens me, and I leave all this tedious routine far, far distant; I listen, till all the world is changed, and the beautiful earth becomes more beautiful.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[T]he piano was to Harlem what brass bands had been to New Orleans. The instrument represented conflicting possibilities -- a pathway for assimilating traditional highbrow culture, a calling card of lowbrow nightlife, a symbol of middle-class prosperity, or, quite simply, a means of making a living.

~ Ted Gioia

We feel that we fit into this fandom even if we're an outcast or misfits in this world. -Mary, 16, Philippines

~ Jazmin Williams

After we hung up, I took the joint. If I was going to die here, in the creepy basement out of a horror movie, in an epic snowstorm that was like an icy prison, with a wife unwilling to pretend-like Bananarama to maybe save her husband's life, I should at least go out with a smile on my face.

~ Eric Spitznagel

I may some day get a boyfriend and eventually a husband, but you will always be my first loves. -Sheetal, 14, Qatar

~ Jazmin Williams

Ah! keep my songs within your heart (The heart that holds the singer too), And never to the world impart The music only meant for you. Nor breathe one word, one tender word aloud, Lest it be heard by the cold-hearted crowd. To sing what only you can hear Will keep my heart in perfect tune; As sings the nightingale, when clear Above her shines the summer moon, And every tone of truthful love that flows Is heard alone by the enraptured rose.

~ L. G. Mcvean

Music is a medicine that is self prescribed.

~ Jazmin Williams

Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

This story is dedicated to all those who help, and all those who care.

~ James D. Scanlon

The best music is that which subtly connects with your reality but mischievously transcends you into an enticing imagination.

~ Hrishikesh Agnihotri